Stunningham Farms
If you want to feel like a kid again, you can watch as our local cotton candy maker, Tailor, spin a confection that looks like pillows of wool but melts in your mouth like a snowflake.
Cotton candy never loses the "wow" factor, it even has it's own kind of magic: the magic of food science.
Cotton candy, also known as fairy floss and candy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton.
It is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifugally through minute holes, causing it to rapidly cool and re-solidify into fine strands.
Nutritionally speaking, the sugars in cotton candy are simple carbohydrates, so they supply your body nothing but calories -- just pure energy.
Like all calories, they can contribute to weight gain, but on the other hand, a standard serving of cotton candy contains far less sugar than one can of a regular soft drink: one teaspoon of sugar versus 12.
